Cinder-conductor



' (No Model.)

H. O. SARGENT. GINDER GONDUOTOR.

No. 484,164 Patented 0011.11, 1892 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY o. SARGENT, OF'MACHIAS, MAINE.

ClNDER-CONDUCTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 484,164, dated October 11, 1892. Application filed September 30, 1891. Serial No. 407,299. (No model.)

spark-conductors.

The object of the present invention is to provide for railway-cars a conductor which will convey cinders, sparks, smoke, and other products of combustion from an engine over the tops of the cars to the rear end ofatrain, and which will also serve. as a means'for ventilating the cars.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of cars provided with spark-conductors constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of a car. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view.

Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

1 designates a car having an outer casing 2 extending over the top viding a longitudinal opening at, extending the entire length of a car and adapted to con vey the smoke, sparks, cinders, and other products of combustion from anengine to the rear end of atrain. The outer-casing 2is constructed of suitable material similar to that forming the top of the car; but sheet metal is preferably employed, and the said casing intermediate its ends conforms closely to the shape of the top 3 and provides a wide opening with but little dept-h, thereby necessitating but little additional height to a car. The ends 5 of the casing are flared and form a funnel-shaped mouth, and are providedwith paror roof 3 and proallel depending portions 6, which extend downward at the ends of the car to increase the size of the months, so that the conductor of one car will receive all the cinders and sparks from the car ahead of it. The flared ends 5 create a draft sufficient to suck in readily all the sparks and cinders blowing against the first car of a train and co vey the same to the rear of the train.

The draft through the conductor may be advantageously employed to ventilate the cars and will be found efficient as ventilators from the inside of cars, opening into the airspace, through which air is forced by the velocity of the trainand must necessarily create agreat draft. The outer casing is supported at intervals by thin braces 7, which are elliptical and are secured in place by screws.

What I claim is g 1. A car provided with an outer casing extending laterally over its top and forming a lateral longitudinal opening and provided with enlarged flaring ends extending entirely across the car, whereby the smoke and cinders from a casing of one car of a train will be delivered into the casing of another car without employing couplings to connect the casings, substantially as described.

2. A car provided with an outer casing extending over its top and conforming to the configuration of the same and providing a shallow opening extending across the car and along the same, said casing being provided with flaring ends and depending flaring portions arranged at the ends of the car at opposite sides of the same, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the my own I have hereto affixed my the presence of two witnesses.

HENRY C. SARGENT.

foregoing as signature in Witnesses:

C. O. FURBUSH, L. H. HANSCOM. 

